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Carl Keenan Seyfert Carl Keenan Seyfert (February 11, 1911 – June 13, 1960) was an American astronomer. He is best known for his 1943 research paper on high-excitation line emission from the centers of some spiral galaxies, which are named Seyfert galaxy, Seyfert ...

(1911–1960), United States astronomer *

Gabriele Seyfert Gabriele "Gaby" Seyfert (later Rüger, then Messerschmidt, now Körner, born 23 November 1948) is a German former figure skater. She is a two-time World champion (1969, 1970), and the 1968 Olympic silver medalist. She is the first lady to suc ...

(born 1948), German athlete in figure skating *

J. Michael Seyfert J. Michael Seyfert (born 1959) is a German Mexicans, German Mexican documentary film director best known for the documentaries ''Rent a Rasta'' and ''Bye Bye Havana''. Among other awards, at the Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival, Sey ...

(born 1959), German Mexican documentary filmmaker, photographer *

Johann Caspar Seyfert Johann Caspar Seyfert (1697 – 26 May 1767, Augsburg) was a German composer, violinist and lute player. He was a music director in Augsburg where he was born and died. In 1746 he added a fourth volume to the ''Augsburger Tafel-Confect'', which Val ...

(1697–1767), German music composer * (1731–1772), German music composer, son of Johann Caspar Seyfert *

R. Tracy Seyfert R. Tracy Seyfert (born December 2, 1941) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 5th District from 1997 through her resignation in 2000. Seyfert attended Mountain View Joint Schools. She earn ...

(born 1941), United States political figure from Pennsylvania

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Seyfert (crater) Seyfert is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to it ...

, a crater on the far side of Earth's Moon that is named after Carl Keenan Seyfert *

Seyfert Galaxy Seyfert galaxies are one of the two largest groups of active galaxies, along with quasars. They have quasar-like nuclei (very luminous, distant and bright sources of electromagnetic radiation) with very high surface brightnesses whose spectra ...

, a class of galaxies named after Carl Keenan Seyfert *

Seyfert's Sextet Seyfert's Sextet is a group of galaxies about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The group appears to contain six members, but one of the galaxies, NGC 6027d, is a background object and another "galaxy," NGC 6027e, is ...

, a group of galaxies located in a cluster some 190 million light-years from Earth

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